SPA 355 - Intellectual Travels and Migrations in Hispanic Literature and Art

This course introduces students with fundamental and exploratory questions about (s)exiles and Latin American diasporas in relation with discourses of national identity. Through this seminar, we will discuss how displacement in its varied forms has shaped and continues to transform Hispanic cultures and to redefine geographical borders and communities. To explore the richness of this phenomenon, this course adopts a transatlantic approach and offers an overview of the sociopolitical and economic factors that informed intellectual travels and migratory waves in Spain and Latin America during the 20^th century. By engaging with different materials from literature, music, to visual art, students will learn how displacement is a recurrent and shifting trope that invokes questions of cultural identity, political reflection, intimacy, and experiences of uprooting and homesickness.

Satisfies the Post-1800 requirement for the Hispanic Studies Major
Satisfies Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric requirement.

Prerequisites & Notes
SPA 271, 272 or permission of the Chair